alcofribas/person/actor

silvia pinal

i first saw her as the devil in buñuel's simón del desertio
. i was seduced and amazed. later i saw viridiana and
el ángel exterminador. she's been in so many movies in
mexico that i've never seen, but there are lots of lobby cards for sale
on ebay. i like her lost look and her stern looks too.

giulietta masina

dangerously open in la strada and le notti di cabiria,
she is you, spry and hopeful.

anouk aimée

i loved her in la dolce vita, so wry and elusive, even more in
8 1/2, uneasy and betrayed, but dignified, reserved, stunning.
i was happy to see her in the recently restored lola, charming
as ever.

jean-pierre léaud

i'm sorry if you find it predictable and retarded, but i love so many of
his movies, how he mumbles through quatre cents coups, falls into
alphaville, and parades around week end. mostly i liked
him in baisers volés and la maman et la putain,
though there are a lot of his films i've yet to see. when will le
pére noël a les yeux bleus come out on dvd?

i first saw her in la dolce vita and just thought she was loud.
since then i've seen her in a lot of pasolini's films, as the wife of bath
and a desdemona puppet. extra-super.

delphine seyrig

so serene and charmante. i think of her most in
baisers volées.

paulette goddard

if you've seen her as the gamine in modern times with those crazy
eyes and all that energy, you'll know what i mean. too bad i missed the
restored prints of renoir's diary of a chambermaid at the castro.

annie girardot

i only remember her from rocco and his brothers but she was extra
charming with alain delon.

alain cuny

i liked him most at the organ in la dolce vita, grave and quiet.
seems like he was a little creepy in emmanuelle.

where did i read that he insisted on playing mercutio in a stage production
of romeo & juliet? he reminds me of a question on a test, which implied that
a method actor wasn't better than an imitative actor if the audience couldn't
sense the method actor's feelings. at his best in bill and ted's excellent
adventure, strangely dull in my own private idaho and thereafter.

dita parlo

radiant, truly, and sometimes generously petulant, but always amazing.
you must have seen her in l'atalante and la grand illusion.

michel simon

well, if you like french cinema, you know all about it anyways, but he
made a career as a persistant outcast with a heart of something
anyways. père jules in vigo's l'atalante and boudu in
renoir's boudu sauvé des eaux, not to mention a part with
maria falconetti and antonin artaud in dreyer's la passion de jeanne
d'arc.